Elssjö, Tom

Abstract [en]

This report is about the project of improving an existing program in order to make it more useful. The program simulates a kind of production cell that consist of different components that are controlled by a special controller program. By analyzing the program, several aspects that could be improved were found and those were grouped into three different parts of the problem. The first one is about improving the realism and precision of the simulation. Issues such as unrealistic movement of the components and other types of actions that are different than a real production cell are addressed in this part. Detection of unwanted situations is the second part of the problem. Here unwanted movement and contact are some situations that need to be checked. The final part of the problem is about improving the visualization in the simulator. There are several ways to visualize the production cell that would involve to either use 2D images or 3D models.